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On February 15, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a final rule release (the “Release”) adopting amendments (the “Amendments”) to Rule 205-3 under...
On February 23, 2012, the CFTC adopted final rules regarding the internal business conduct of swap dealers and major swap participants under the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules combine five sep...
A number of companies have been unhappy to discover that ISS’ recent adoption and resulting move to GRId 2.0 changed “low” or “medium” concerns to move up a notch (to “medium?...
In a sign of the growing importance of Chinese competition law to global M&A transactions, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently approved Western Digital Corp.’s acquisitio...
A number of recent studies have noted a substantial decrease in IPOs by smaller companies and a perceived lack of hospitality to smaller companies in the public markets. Commentators have...
The SEC Staff has agreed that several companies can exclude their proxy access shareholder proposals that were modeled on a template provided by the United States Proxy Exchange, which al...
On February 28, 2012, the CFTC and the SEC proposed rules and guidelines requiring financial institutions and other creditors under their respective jurisdiction to develop written identi...
The tax provisions commonly referred to as “FATCA” use a 30% withholding tax to enforce a worldwide reporting regime designed to prevent U.S. persons from using offshore accounts to e...
The SEC Staff made several recent decisions on questions of proof of ownership for submission of shareholder proposals, in light of the requirement under Staff Legal Bulletin 14F, which w...
Among the new proxy disclosure requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act is the mandate that issuers disclose in their CD&A [w]hether, and, if so, how the registrant has considered the resu...